02 Aug 1871
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Newspaper
Freeport Journal
Location
Freeport, Illinois, United States of America
Date
Aug 02, 1871
Page
1
A plain written notice invites Stephenson County residents to read farm topic books prepared by Farmer, focusing on county farming practices. The department page opens to readers with guidance on subjects and printing schedule.
An American Agriculturint essay argues for large poultry, urging weight as a premium factor in fairs. It discourages extreme giants, noting best table quality comes from moderate, efficiently fed birds. Three-year growth charts show forty pounds as a safe male limit, with hens proportionally smaller, to yield early maturity and robust chicks.
Advice from Birdsdale in Clover Leaf on growing and saving clover seed. Timings vary by crop type with pasturing until June midpoints, mowing windows, and plaster coats to aid yields. Emphasizes keeping stock out of seed, proper cutting, drying, and handling to avoid losses and spoilage.
Historical note recalls Simon Cameron bought a Broad Mountain spur in Pennsylvania for ten dollars. It has grown to an estimated value of 41 million, with thirty five years of coal mining generating royalties around 109 dollars daily.
The Chicago Evening Mail comments on a long discussion about whether the United States is a secular state or serves a higher authority via the Catholic Church. It cites The Catholic World and Louisville Sun, arguing Republicanism grants power from the people, not the Pope, and warns against allegiance to church above government.
A garbled string of punchlines and vignettes from a 19th century page. Jokes on cannibals weatherwise and shoe pegs. a minister’s Sunday class test ends with a weathercock as the highest church dignitary. A shoe dealer’s peg rasp joke and a boy with a borrowed horse coldly mocked. Several quips about George Washington, ghost rumors, ragamuffins in a drug store, and a coal merchant’s arithmetic finale.
A romantic misadventure occurs in a Civil War hospital when a young Confederate maiden petitions to kiss a dying lieutenant for his mother. A prank by a hospital attendant exposes the ruse as the sleeping officer awakens, then playfully embraces the girl and urges her to kiss on her own account.
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